Kathianne Boniello

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Marie O. Pohl |Kathianne Boniello

Joyous singing turned to screams Saturday night as New Yorkers who turned out to Pier 17 for a send off of a Mexican Navy ship on a goodwill tour watched in horror and disbelief as the vessel slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge. Ismari Romero and her sister Miriam had been in contact with some of the 277 sailors aboard the Cuauhtémoc — and even given them a tour of the Big Apple while the majestic vessel was docked at the South Street Seaport this week.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Kathianne Boniello

Queens College purged its accounting department of Jewish adjunct professors after “antisemitic hate speech and violence” erupted on campus following the Hamas terror attack on Israel, according to a lawsuit. Adjunct accounting professor Helen Schwalb says the City University of New York school declined to reappoint her in May 2023 — along with five Jewish colleagues — as part of an effort to “clean house of its Jewish staff,” she claimed in court papers.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Kathianne Boniello

A New Jersey woman suffered “catastrophic and permanent injuries” in a car crash caused by an allegedly-drunk NYPD officer who opened fire during a road rage incident, she said in a lawsuit. Stephanie Hummel was left with a collapsed lung, numerous fractures and “permanent cardiac disfunction” after off-duty Officer Hieu Tran shot another driver in southern New Jersey, sending the man’s vehicle careening into hers, according to Manhattan federal court papers.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Kathianne Boniello

A Long Island violin shop that’s been open since the 1940s appears to have closed its doors for good — but the bitter business dispute between the founder’s family and current owner still has no coda in sight. About three dozen bass violins, including a $250,000 Panormo bass violin, in the storeroom of Kolstein’s Music in Baldwin were loaded onto a truck last week by owner Manny Alvarez, according to court papers.

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Kathianne Boniello

An Emmy-award winning journalist claims in a lawsuit her $6 million tropical mansion was sold out from under her by a sleazy auctioneer. Cathleen Trigg-Jones, who launched iWomanTV and won an Emmy in 2003 for education reporting while at WWOR in New York City, slammed Concierge Auctions in Florida for what she called “blatant misogyny,” according to a $10 million lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court.